Volkert Doeksen

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name = Volkert Doeksen


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birth_date = January 23, 1963
birth_place = Netherlands
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occupation = Private equity investor
CEO, AlpInvest Partners
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Volkert Doeksen (January 23, 1963) is a private equity investor and founder of AlpInvest Partners (originally NIB Capital), one of the largest private equity investments managers globally with over €40 billion of assets under management. [ [http://www.thedeal.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=TheDeal/TDDArticle/TDStandardArticle&bn=NULL&c=TDDArticle&cid=1075485761430 AlpInvest raises a mountain of money] (TheDeal.com, 2004)] Today, he serves as managing partner and Chief Executive Officer of AlpInvest Partners.

Additionally, Volkert is director of Doeksen Transport Groep (DTG) and sits on the Board of NXP Semiconductors in the Netherlands. He also serves on the Advisory Board of private equity firm Warburg Pincus.

Prior to founding AlpInvest, Doeksen was a director of Dresdner Kleinwort Benson (today Dresdner Kleinwort), managing over $3 billion of private equity investments. From 1992 to 1994, Doeksen served as head of the bank's Benelux region, based in the firm's London office. In 1994, he moved to New York to head up DKB's private equity investments, including U.S. leveraged buyouts, mezzanine debt and fund of funds.

Prior to Kleinwort Benson, Doeksen worked as an investment banker focusing on mergers and acquisitions for Dillon Read from 1989 through 1992. He began his career as a financial analyst in corporate finance for Morgan Stanley International in London in 1987.

Doeksen received his M.A. in Law from Universiteit Leiden (The University of Leiden).

Other

Doeksen serves as the Chairman of the Millennium Promise Netherlands Foundation and serves on the board of directors. [ [http://www.millenniumpromise.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about_bod Millennium Promise Board of Directors] ]

Doeksen is a Dutch national and hails from the Doeksen family which controls various shipping and transportation concerns in the Netherlands.

References

* [http://www.forbesconferences.com/?page=speaker&speakerID=87&window=popup Forbes Profile]
* [http://www.alpinvest.com/leadership/index.asp?viewType=ByRegion&d_Bio_ID=2&Section=7,1,0 Volkert Doeksen Biography] (AlpInvest Partners Website)
* [http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=736400 Volkert Doeksen Profile] (BusinessWeek).
* [http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=700246008 Private-Equity Deals Robust, Interview with Volkert Doeksen] (CNBC Europe), Apr. 2 2008
* [http://www.efinancialnews.com/investmentbanking/fn100/content/1046694625/volkertdoeksen Volkert Doeksen: Financial News 100 Most influential people 2006 (#56)]
* [http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:HchPx777Js4J:www.afic.asso.fr/Images/Upload/Evenements/conf06_vdoeksen.pdf Speech:Volkert Doeksen, The French Senate] . AFIC’s Annual Conference on Private Equity, Monday April 3, 2006.
* [http://www.thedeal.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=TheDeal/TDDArticle/TDStandardArticle&bn=NULL&c=TDDArticle&cid=1053702577660 Dutch Treat] (TheDeal.com, 2003)